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, E. P. PARSQNS COLLAR Filed Sept. 27, 1924 E P PARSOHS Patented Aug. 31, 1926.

UNITED STATES Pratt orricsl ERNEST P. PARSONS, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO PARSONS AND PARSONS,

OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO. l

COLLAR.

Application filed September 27, 1924; Serial No. 7403226.

My invention relates to an improvement in a collar or band of neckwear made of celluloid or equivalent material which is stilily flexible and formed with tabs having openings adapted to receive a button or other fastening device. Such collars are constructed to simulate collars made of starched woven materials, but certain inherent characteristics and properties in the substitute material make such collars more susceptible to wear and breakage at the edges of the button openings in the tabs, and the tabs are also too stiff and unyielding to permit ready and convenient attachment of the collar to aneckband with the common collar buttons or fasteners in general use. My object is to provide a celluloid collar in which wear and breakage at the tab openings will be safeguarded and the life of the collar prolonged by means applied at one end of the button opening or slot, and which means is confined to a localized area or spot to permit a button to be easily inserted through the tab and to provide a freely flexible tab adapted to permit convenient attachment of the collar to the neckband of a shirt.

In the accompanying drawing, Fig. 1 is a perspective front view of a collar embodying my improvement, and Fig. 2 is a perspective rear view thereof. Fig. 3 is an enlarged top view of the tab ends of the collar secured to gether by a collar button. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of one of the small notched reenforcing pads or disks. Fig. 5 is a sectional view horizontally through one end of the collar on line 55 of Fig. 6, and Fig. 6 is a cross section and elevation of one end of the collar showing the inner side of the tab and the re-enforcing pad for the button opening therein.

The folded collar A delineated in the drawings, comprises a pair of flexible tabs 2-2 secured by rivets 3 to the opposite ends of the inner band t of the collar. The tabs form extensions of band 4 and the riveted union is preferably retired in respect to the vertical end edge of the band to permit the tab to flex freely in attaching the collar to shirt or other garment. The body of the collar and the tabs are made of thin sheet cotton faced or treated with celluloid or an equivalent substance, and the stiffness and flexibility of this composite material correspond closely to a stiffly starched linen or textile material. The body of the collar may possess a white surface and finish closely simulating finely-woven linen, and the general practice has been to make the tabs of slightly thicker and stiffer celluloid material than the body to withstand the wear and tear of use. The tabs also have buttoning openings 5 therein, and it has been customary to re-enforce the tab in the entire area involving the opening by adding an oval shaped patch 6 of the same material thereto as shown at the rear button opening 7 in the collar, see Fig. 1. However, there are certain objections and disadvantages to the use of a re-enforcement of that kind at the openings in the band extensions or tabs 2, to wit, the tabs become too stifi and unyielding at the button hole to permit ready attachment of the tabs to a button, the repeated insertion of a button soon destroys the original contour of the button hole, the added thickness surrounding the central part of the button holes in a pair of overlapped tabs makes it difficult to attach the tabs to a short button, and a crowded and stiff working union of the tabs on a button prevents the proper set of the collar on the wearer. To overcome these objections, I form each tab 2 with an elongated button hole comprising an enlarged round opening 5 centrally of a straight narrow slot 8 which extends longitudinally of the tab, and aflix a thin patch or piece 10 of the same material as the tab to the inner face of the tab across the outer branch 8 of the slot. Patch 10 is formed with an edge slot or notch 11 which extends inwardly to about the center of the patch, and the inner end of the notch is rounded to conform to the end of branch slot 8 inthe tab. When the patch is in place the notch and branchslot are in register and the tab has an increased thickness in a small circumscribed area around the straight slot 8' closely adjacent to the central round button opening 5, but nevertheless distinctly apart therefrom. Consequently the tab may be flexed freely in that perforated portion thereof that receives the head of a collar button, and the edge por- -tions of the rounded button opening 5 and the entrance portions to slot 8 may also bend and flex freely to admit the button, while the outer end of slot 8 is re-enforced and strengthened to withstand the end pull on the tabs and the wear and tear of the button at these places when the collar is in use.

When the tabs are overlapped and fastened together by a button, one patch 10 comes between the two tabs and separates orrspaces them slightly, thus permitting the head of Only the single ,ply-jor thickness of each :tab engages the shank of the button which 21181- mits the tabs when-connected to turn freely on the button, "and the interspace between the tabs allows a-yielding player ecleananoe which facilitates such turning monements and the attachment of the tabs to a button. These-desirable results are obtainedby .af-

fixing patch or piece -10-in a-seetional area .of thezbutton hole, preferably around outer slot 8' at one side of the main or larger round opening 5.;wand where a patch .10 of c'elluldic'tmatrialIis used it maybe affixed to the tab "by a solvent or a cement. These patches are also preferably placed upon the rear side or inner face of the tabs so as to .beqhidden when {the :collar is viewed from the front or when worn.

Wthat I clann as mym-ventron, 1s: :A celluloid :collar having :a flexible extension formed with an elongated button hole,

and a ythi-ni'fiat fine-enforcing piece cemented to said extension solely'iatrthe outer end of said elongated hole.

EIn testimony whereof I my signature.

ERNEST P. PARSONS. 

